Physics Today

Johanna Miller, in her latest column, looks at little wordsmithing tricks first described by the ancient Greeks for creating powerful and memorable turns of phrase, and how she uses them in her job....

Today is the birthday of Nobel laureate Louis de Broglie. Born in Dieppe, France, in 1892, de Broglie first studied history before turning to physics before WWI. During the war, he worked with the French army to...

Jon Allsop of the Columbia Journalism Review, rounds up the latest stories on scientists being forced out of the administration, due to their work on climate change.

For the first time, particle physicists have observed CP violation in particles containing charm quarks. Such observations are important because they yield clues toward answering a fundamental question: Why did matter...

"On a Monday morning three weeks ago, many of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered in Santa Barbara, California, to discuss a major predicament. ... [Adam] Riess laid out the evidence, gathered by himself and...

One hundred fifty years ago today, a solar eclipse crossed North America, sweeping from Alaska to North Carolina. Thanks to new technology such as the telegraph, railroads, and photography, astronomers on the...

What to do about nuclear waste? This article in the Guardian talks about a new experiment in using fracking techniques to bury waste deep in the ground. The tricky bit isn't putting the waste down there, it's being...